Joanna Sophia of Bavaria (c. 1373 – 15 November 1410) was the youngest daughter of
Albert I, Duke of Bavaria
Albert I, Duke of Lower Bavaria (german: Albrecht; 25 July 1336 – 13 December 1404), was a feudal ruler of the counties of Holland, Hainaut, and Zeeland in the Low Countries. Additionally, he held a portion of the Bavarian province of Strau ...
and his first wife
Margaret of Brieg
Margaret of Brieg (1342–1386) was a daughter of Ludwik I the Fair and his wife, Agnes of Sagan. She was Duchess consort of Bavaria by her marriage to Albert I, Duke of Bavaria.
Family
Margaret was the eldest of six siblings, her brother was ...
. She was a member of the
House of Wittelsbach
The House of Wittelsbach () is a German dynasty, with branches that have ruled over territories including Bavaria, the Palatinate, Holland and Zeeland, Sweden (with Finland), Denmark, Norway, Hungary (with Romania), Bohemia, the Electorate ...
.
On 13 June 1395, Joanna Sophia married
Albert IV, Duke of Austria
Albert IV of Austria (19 September 1377 – 14 September 1404) was a Duke of Austria.
Biography
He was born in Vienna, the son of Albert III of Austria and Beatrix of Nuremberg. He was the Duke of Austria from 1395 until 1404, which then ...
in
Vienna
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. The marriage between the two ended a feud between Joanna Sophia's father and Albert's father,
Albert III of Austria
Albert III of Austria (9 September 1349 – 29 August 1395), known as Albert with the Braid (Pigtail) (german: Albrecht mit dem Zopf), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1365 until his death.
Biography
Albert III was ...
. Joanna Sophia's father agreed to the payment of 10,000
Pfennig
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e and he gave Albert III the fortress of Natternberg and the town of
Deggendorf
Deggendorf () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the Deggendorf district.
It is located on the left bank approximately in the middle between the Danube cities of Regensburg and Passau. The Danube forms the town's natural border towards ...
.
The marriage produced two children; both of whom survived to adulthood. They were:
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Albert V Albert V may refer to:
*Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (ca. mid-1330s–1370)
*Albert V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1397–1423)
*Albert II of Germany (1397–1439), Albert V as Duke of Austria
*Albert V, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (died c. 1469)
*Albert ...
(16 August 1397–27 October 1439,
Neszmély
Neszmély (german: Nessmühl) is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary.
The Holy Roman Emperor Albert II of Germany
Albert the Magnanimous KG, elected King of the Romans as Albert II (10 August 139727 October 1439) was king of the ...
, Hungary).
# Margaret (26 June 1395, Vienna–24 December 1447), married in
Landshut
Landshut (; bar, Landshuad) is a town in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany. Situated on the banks of the River Isar, Landshut is the capital of Lower Bavaria, one of the seven administrative regions of the Free State of Bavaria. It is also t ...
25 November 1412 to Duke
Henry XVI of Bavaria
Henry XVI of Bavaria (1386 – 30 July 1450, in Landshut), (), since 1393 Duke of Bavaria-Landshut. He was a son of duke Frederick and his wife Maddalena Visconti, a daughter of Bernabò Visconti.
Life
Duke Henry XVI was the first of the three f ...
.
Albert would often quarrel with members of Joanna Sophia's family, such as their brother-in-law
Wenceslaus, King of the Romans
Wenceslaus IV (also ''Wenceslas''; cs, Václav; german: Wenzel, nicknamed "the Idle"; 26 February 136116 August 1419), also known as Wenceslaus of Luxembourg, was King of Bohemia from 1378 until his death and King of Germany from 1376 until he w ...
and his half-brother
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Sigismund of Luxembourg (15 February 1368 – 9 December 1437) was a monarch as King of Hungary and Croatia ('' jure uxoris'') from 1387, King of Germany from 1410, King of Bohemia from 1419, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 until his death in ...
. This ended only when Albert died in 1404. Joanna Sophia arranged marriages for her children. She made negotiations with
Frederick, Duke of Bavaria
Frederick (1339 – 4 December 1393) was Duke of Bavaria from 1375. He was the second son of Stephen II and Elizabeth of Sicily.
Family
His maternal grandparents were Frederick III of Sicily and Eleanor of Anjou. Her parents were Charles ...
, to marry her daughter, Margaret to his son,
Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria
Henry XVI of Bavaria (1386 – 30 July 1450, in Landshut), (), since 1393 Duke of Bavaria-Landshut. He was a son of duke Frederick, Duke of Bavaria, Frederick and his wife Maddalena Visconti, a daughter of Bernabò Visconti.
Life
Duke Henry XVI w ...
. Henry and Margaret married two years after Joanna Sophia's death.
Her son Albert married
Elizabeth of Luxembourg
Elizabeth of Luxembourg ( hu, Luxemburgi Erzsébet; 7 October 1409 – 19 December 1442) was queen consort of Hungary, queen consort of Germany and Bohemia.
The only child of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Eliza ...
, the only child of Emperor Sigismund.
Joanna Sophia died aged thirty-six or thirty-seven in Vienna.
Ancestors
References
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1370s births
1410 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
14th-century German nobility
14th-century German women
15th-century German nobility
15th-century German women
House of Wittelsbach
Austrian royal consorts
14th-century House of Habsburg
15th-century House of Habsburg